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020			_a9780241656914 (PB)
041			_aeng
080			_a82-3 _bRAM
100			_aRampo, Edogawa
245			_aBeast in the Shadows
260			_bPenguin Books _c2006 _aLondon
300			_a96p.
520			_aA reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind a suspicious trail of blackmailing letters to a former lover. Another detective novelist, his rival, is the only one who can find him. A sequence of macabre and appalling events follows.
650			_aTranslated from the Japanese
650			_aDetective Stories
650			_aCrime -- Fiction
650			_aMystery -- Fiction
690			_aGeneral
700			_aHughes, Ian (Translator)
942			_cBK _01
999			_c60345 _d60345